Iran held a funeral on Friday for seven Revolutionary Guards killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria earlier this week. State broadcaster showed demonstrators carrying pictures of those killed and banners with slogans such as "Death to Israel" and "Death to America". The funeral coincided with the annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day, during which Iran stages large state-sponsored pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rallies nationwide. Among those killed in Monday's airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus was one of Iran's top soldiers, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, the extraterritorial wing of the IRGC.
